Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Back in Japan (May 2017)...Local eats


This time, because we had a lot of family stuff to take care of, I spent a lot of time with Tomoko in Urawa. I love the neighborhood and it has a nice gourmet scenes.

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Our "go to" soba place. On a warm day, I enjoy their cold bukkake soba with grated mountain yam.

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A cute bistro is within a walking distance from my sister's home. I loved the octopus ragout spaghetti.

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A new soba and duck izakaya.

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We had small dishes to share.

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All so tasty. I loved the miso bagna cauda sauce for the steamed vegetables. The grilled Saikyo-miso marinated oysters were so huge and so plump.

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Duck was slow roasted and so tender. It went really well with 2015 Argano Clan by Katsunuma Jozo in Yamanashi. It was a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Muscat Bailey A.

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Soba time. I grated the wasabi for everybody. I had cold soba with walnut dipping sauce. It was so good. Wataru turned 16 in May. He's still growing taller!